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Following Russian attacks, Ukraine works to restore power and water to its cities
Following Russian attacks, Ukraine works to restore power and water to its cities.
A day after Russia launched more attacks against infrastructure supporting human life, Ukrainian authorities are striving to restore electricity and water to important towns, including Kyiv.
In the early hours of Thursday, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko estimated that nearly 70% of the Ukrainian capital was still without electricity.
He said on Telegram that “energy engineers and specialists worked all night” to restore the water and electricity supply.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “wage[s] the most despicable and inhumane sort of war on innocent citizens,” according to a tweet from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday.
Following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s videotaped address to the U.N. Security Council, in which Zelenskyy claimed that Russian missiles target hospitals, schools, transit hubs, and residential areas, he made his remarks.
Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine was looking forward to the world’s “very forceful reply.”
Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, criticized what he called the “reckless threats and ultimatums” made by Ukraine and its Western backers.
Several Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, lost electricity as a result of Russian bombings on Wednesday; three persons were reportedly killed there.
Russian airstrikes continue to batter the Ukrainian power grid.
Although there was no immediate word on how many targets had been struck, the mayor of the western city of Lviv, which is close to the Polish border, said that the whole city had lost electricity.
The United States said that it is sending another $400 million worth of ammunition and generators to Kiev as the attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure continued, raising the total amount of U.S. support to more than $19 billion over the course of the nine-month conflict.
The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.